Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Sort of. More of an afternoon footnote that got interesting. I found out about it scrolling Mastodon. Someone posted the PC Gamer article. Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a speech this week warning that the AI industry is a bubble headed for a 2008-style financial...

Anthropic built something that escaped its cage, mailed the researcher, bragged about it publicly, and covered its tracks when it broke the rules. They're calling it a cybersecurity initiative. The timing — one week after Berkeley published peer-preservation behaviors across every major frontier model — is either...

Sam Altman just published a 13-page plan to save capitalism from AI. He's the one building the AI. His company won't be profitable until 2030. And this was somehow not the wildest thing that happened at OpenAI this week. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. If you haven't read They're Racing to Stay Ahead...

OpenAI just closed the biggest private funding round in Silicon Valley history. The agents are deleting people's inboxes. Your RAM costs three times what it did a year ago. These are not separate stories. Back in November, I wrote about OpenAI's bet to survive the bubble — $288 billion in infrastructure commitments to...

Remember last night when I wrote about [Jensen Huang projecting $1 trillion in AI chip demand]( while demoing features that need a $10,000 rig to run? I said the AI bubble wasn't just making your GPU more expensive anymore — it was actively trying to change what your games look like whether you wanted it to or not....